December 2010
“I would say this to those people who would not vote for Jeff Bagwell because...”
– Joe Posnanski in his latest Hall of Fame piece. (via oldtimefamilybaseball)
PRESS PLAY AND LOOK AT THE GIF.
“We need teachers and principals who are paid better for better performance, but...”
– U.S.G. and P.T.A. - NYTimes.com (via csessums)
“Do unto others…” is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is...”
– This paragraph captures exactly what it is about organized religion that has rubbed me the wrong way since I was a child.
A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist - Speakeasy - WSJ (via zeb)
stefc:
“And that’s how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there… . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.”
—Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
“We will no longer be able to bail out these other emasculated armies because...”
– American Family Association The AFA is throwing their toys out of the pram. Apparently the gaggle of other Western nations with open service are “feminized” and “neutered”. This is so ridiculous I can’t stop laughing. (via justjasper)
And this is why the USA is the laughing stock of the world.
...
(Can I blame the internet for this?)
becool-sodapop:
faithampersandbegorrah:
[Of course I can.]
I’ve lost the ability to read. I’ve lost the ability to just sit in the quiet with a book or an article or anything of substance that is longer than, say, the height of my browser window - ahem - and just read it.
Given the state of my life, i.e. utterly single, living alone, without a television or a substantive hobby, bored and...
Rent-A-Tree - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan →
Good tells you why you should:
It’s December, and if you celebrate Christmas that means it’s time to kill a tree, let it languish in your living room for a week, and then toss it on the curb. An estimated 32 million trees suffer this fate in America every year. The alternative—buying an artificial PVC tree from China—iseven worse.
But you don’t have to go treeless. In Los...
Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid →
World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation.
So the more you watch, the less you...
“This guy has an emotional problem, that every time he talks about anything that...”
– Barbara Walters Rips Tearful John Boehner: ‘This Guy Has an Emotional Problem’ (via apsies)
davidquigg:
newsweek:
“You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan.”
- Richard Holbrooke’s last words. (via cajunboy)
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Come on, Newsweek. Be journalists when you reblog. Make some minimal effort to add context.
From the WaPo obituary in the link above:
As Mr. Holbrooke was sedated for surgery, family members said, his final words were to his Pakistani surgeon:...
“Since when does the Republican Party make 9/11 first responders stand over in...”
– Jon Stewart
Never Forget | Talking Points Memo
I just want him to try
alcaniglia:
There have been tons of press lately about President Obama losing his base. At first, I said, “no way”, but then I realized that I have been a bit disappointed in him myself. I am Obama’s base and if he is disappointing me, then he may be having issues. But, the reason I am disappointed is not about policy (seriously, some of the best policy in a generation has come out during the...
